Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) cockerell Satire on the national debt

Satire on the national debt

Tycho Brahe's mural quadrant ('Quadrans muralis sive Tichonicus') in his Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven

The Democrat President of the United States

Copy of the Death Warrant of King Charles I

Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) cockerell Satire on the national debtOval head and shoulders portrait of Newton above a pedestal decorated with laurel, a lamp, books and instruments. A pyramid structure is visible behine and below Newton a classical scene [two muses?] within a circular frame. Inscribed: 'Sr. ISAAC NEWTON I. Houbraken sculpsit. In the possession of John Conduit Esqr. G Kneller pinx.' Isaac Newton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1672, he served as its President from 1703 to 1727. Original: